It’s never too hot to spill the tea. Federal immigration minister Ahmed Hussen called it “not Canadian” to imply that refugee claimants are "queue-jumpers." But staff at the refugee board are complaining of overload. Hussen’s new Ontario counterpart, Lisa MacLeod, fired back by asking for an apology over “a nice cup of tea.” Instead, he opted to pour for the folks in York South-Weston:

Gordon Chong dead at 74. The municipal fixture was recently a regular columnist for the Toronto Sun, even if he complained about editors subjecting his copy to “unilateral spineless meddling.” Chong was a former dentist whose politics leaned right, although left-wing councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam nonetheless always addressed him as “uncle.”